Check As Root - Linuxconf_User accounts_permissions - select "shutdown" in
the granted column, Quit, Activate.
Linuxconf could have a lock on the command from the terminal.
Logout, Login as User, Try "reboot" or "halt" from a terminal, or you can
logout, then use the GUI login screen to select Halt/Reboot.
Regards,
Sean
sj.Pritchard Technical Services
Vanderhoof, BC
http://www.sjptech.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy Goth
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Non-root shutdown
>
>
> So I'm logged in as someone other than root, and I want to shutdown.
> My name is in /etc/shutdown.allow, but even when I type /sbin/shutdown
> -a now, it complains that I'm not root.
>
> So what's the purpose of shutdown.allow and the -a switch?
>
> And what a contradiction! I _can't_ shutdown even though my name is in
> /etc/shutdown.allow and I specified the -a switch ("use
> /etc/shutdown.allow"), but I _can_ Ctrl+Alt+Del and turn off the
> computer during the memory check.
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413
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